David Dark

Forty Days on Being a Nine

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“As achingly reluctant but sometimes alarmingly bold seers, Enneagram Nines are tasked with saying what we see and letting the chips fall. Marlena Graves holds this process out with open hands, celebrating the ease with which we find ourselves comforting people while also warning against the risk averseness that can keep us in dispiriting grooves. Most movingly, Graves shows us that loving ourselves a little harder is a sure way of loving others even better. Receive this book for the gift it is.”

How to Begin When Your World Is Ending

Christian Living

“What the world needs, Howard Thurman tells us, is people who have come alive. This is the summons. Molly Baskette has received it. She knows how to grieve, laugh, question, and celebrate. In a sometimes-nightmare world of exclusion and domination, Baskette invites us to dance and risk arrest, to be the therapeutic context we want to see in the world. Receive her witness and get blessed.”

Human Rites

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

It's Not You, It's Everything

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“With It's Not You, It's Everything, Eric Minton gives us a profound gift, inviting us into a genuinely therapeutic space where we can regard our own stretched-to-the-limit bandwidth with care, compassion, and good humor. There is difficult work to be done, but we can meet the task of seeing ourselves clearly and candidly. It can even be a joy.”

The Kingdom of Children

Children & Youth

“With a passion for data, strategy, and the good news of Jesus and other prophets, R. L. Stollar has given us a gift of spirit. The Kingdom of Children is profoundly original, profoundly challenging, and profoundly encouraging. Children, Stollar insists, are bearers of prophetic imagination, and we must learn to regard them this way. We get to honor and revere their clairvoyance instead of fearing it and shutting it down. The world children bear witness to through curiosity and creativity is our actual world, one in which God sees everything our violence tries to hide and deny. It is a world in which children, our resident actualists, have the right not to be beaten or driven to despair by parents and other adults—they have the right to liberation. Take up and consider what Stollar sets down in this actionable text. We have holy work in front of us.”

Vintage Saints and Sinners

History & Biography

“Righteousness, we know, is endlessly complicated. In Vintage Saints and Sinners, Karen Marsh shows that it's also a living process, a communal drama of joy and liveliness into which we're invited. With wit, care, and deep lyricism, Karen helps us to see that saints—who are also always sinners—are on our side. Where we are, they've already been. We get to meet their messy witness with our own. One day at a time.”

Why Love Will Always Be a Poor Investment

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Awfully good. In the often brutally candid (and therefore redemptive) witness of Kurt Armstrong, there are no corners of human experience beyond the interest and affection of God's inescapably earthbound economy. With wit, verve, and eye-rubbingly honest straightforwardness, Armstrong presents the self (his self and ours) as the inescapably social gift of others and life in God as the identity we hold to loosely to find, again and again, in the sacred everyday. With one feat of attentiveness after another, he expands the space of the talkaboutable.”